Chapter Four
Chapter Four
Relations among the Four Causes
21. An Effect Can Have More Than One Cause; and a Cause, More Than
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One Effect
22. An Agent Can Be Both Cause and Effect in Relation to an End; So Too
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Matter in Relation to Form
23. The Matter and the Agent Are Both Prior and Posterior to the Form and
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the End
24. Absolute Necessity and Conditional Necessity
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The Necessity of Death
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25. Three of the Causes — Form, End, Agent — Can Coincide with One
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Another; the Fourth, i.e., Matter, Cannot Coincide with Any of the Other
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